The Bookworm's Thread 2016

Snorkypants

Upsidedown_Bear wrote: »

Really enjoying this thread
It's not a genre I've previously read but having watched The Walking Dead/Fear the Walking Dead/Z Nation I've been reading zombie books

I didn't finish World War Z by Max Brooks - didn't enjoy it.
I really enjoyed The Return Man by V M Zito. I'm hoping for a sequel
Currently reading and enjoying Postive (Zombies. Road pirates. Death cults. He had no choice but to build a new world) by David Wellington. He's written other zombie books so I'll be looking for them when I finish Positive.

Does anyone else read zombie books and can recommend any books/authors? Thank you

if you don't mind young adult books, I really enjoyed Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion. It's a love story, very well written, and set in a zombie apocalypse.

pollypenny

whiteslice wrote: »

Now this is intriguing!

I read Homage to Catalonia a few months ago and thought it excellent. Should I go for Dominion now?

I've just realised that I've mixed up Dominion and Winter in Madrid, which seems derivative of Homage to Catalonia! :eek:

Definitely worth a read!

whiteslice

Ok, pollypenny, but which one?

Lynplatinum

Must try to read tonight - yep - its already 12.15! got to a bit in Sandi Totsvig 's Flying under bridges where two really good characters have died - depressed me a bit :-(

Will let you know if it gets any cheerfuller towards the end - v well written though!

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when I picked up Dominions I also managed to find on the shelf Winter in Madrid so I have two decent books to get stuck into Thanks chums for the recommendations
JackieO xx

Hobsons_Choice

whiteslice wrote: »

Ok, polly penny, but which one?

I think Pollypenny meant that "Winter in Madrid" was like the George Orwell.
I've read that as well (in fact all the C.J. Sansom books) and enjoyed it, but thought "Dominion" even better (it's imagining that we signed a treaty with Germany rather than won the war. The British Resistance are working to destroy the pact). And now I come to think of it that sounds a bit like "Fatherland" by Robert Harris - which I also enjoyed!

pollypenny

whiteslice wrote: »

Ok, pollypenny, but which one?

They are both good.

There's a number books set in a Britain which lost the war to Germany. Robert Harris' Fatherland is the most famous, but try Owen Sheers' Resistance.


I've just finished A God in Ruins. I did like it, in spite of the somewhat pretentious literary references. Kate Atkinson enjoys playing around, and challenging readers, with structure.

Lynplatinum

Evening all

Read another chapter last nite - in the previous 2 chapters someone has died and in the one last nite the flippin cat died!!

Really would not recommend this book to anyone who is depressed or had a recent bereavement! :eek:However it is really well written so I will keep on till the end.
Nite all

lollyfin

I got The Wise Mans Fear by Patrick Rothfuss from the library on Monday and am loving it as much as part one, The Name of the Wind.
I also picked up The Ghost Riders of Ordebec by Fred Vargas and The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco have any of you read either of those and what did you think of them.
I have a huge list of books I'm going to get ordered from the library so thanks for the recommendations everyone.

LindseyandMatthew

I finished Diane Chamberlain's Before The Storm last night I really enjoyed it. It took me 4 days to read and is my 3rd book of this year so far. I'm about to start the next one "Secrets she left behind" while I wait for some more I have ordered arriving at my local library.